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Michael Parenti est un historien, politologue et critique culturel américain. Il a enseigné dans des universités américaines et étrangères. Wikipedia  

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“Les exigences du pouvoir et de l'exploitation de classe façonnent une réalité sociale dans laquelle nous vivons tous.”

Michael Parenti

Black Shirts and Reds, Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, 1997, Tout-sauf-classe

“Une conscience des rapports de classe améliore notre compréhension de la culture, des discriminations raciales ou du genre.”

Michael Parenti

Black Shirts and Reds, Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, 1997, Tout-sauf-classe

“Épouser une analyse de classe ne signifie pas nier l'importance des questions identitaires mais voir comment celles-ci sont liées entre elle et liées à la structure d'ensemble du pouvoir politico-économique.”

Michael Parenti

Black Shirts and Reds, Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, 1997, Tout-sauf-classe

“Les gens peuvent ne pas développer une conscience de classe mais ils sont toujours affectés par le pouvoir, les privilèges et les handicaps liés à la distribution de la richesse et de la misère. Ces réalités ne se trouvent pas annulées par la race, le genre ou la culture. Ces derniers éléments opèrent dans une société de classe.”

Michael Parenti

Black Shirts and Reds, Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, 1997, Tout-sauf-classe

“Bien sûr, la culture politique n'est elle-même pas exempte des effets du pouvoir de classe. La plus grande partie de ce qui est supposée être notre culture commune émane en grande partie de la transmission sélective de la culture de classe ou de la culture dominée par la classe : […].”

Michael Parenti

Histoire et Mystifications, 1999

“Dans une interview accordée à NBC-TV le 3 avril 1994, le secrétaire d'État à la défense William Perry a froidement remarqué : "Il est concevable que les actions - américaines - puissent aller jusqu'à provoquer les Nord-Coréens dans le déclenchement d'une guerre et c'est un risque que nous acceptons de prendre"”

Michael Parenti

Against Empire, 1994, Pour la cause - Dissuader la prolifération des armements

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“Le prédécesseur de Perry, Les Astin, avait souligné : "Notre objectif est centré sur la nécessité d'étendre notre pouvoir dans des régions vitales pour nos intérêts et de vaincre des puissances régionales potentiellement hostiles telle que la Corée du Nord et l'Irak"”

Michael Parenti

Against Empire, 1994, Pour la cause - Dissuader la prolifération des armements

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“Le racisme et le sexisme contribuent à créer des catégories surexploitées de travailleurs (minorités et femmes) et renforcent les notions d'inégalité qui jouent un rôle si important dans un système capitaliste.”

Michael Parenti

Black Shirts and Reds, Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, 1997, Tout-sauf-classe

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“Dans une interview accordée à CNN le 14 avril 1994, le président nord-coréen Kim Il-Sung a insisté sur le fait que son pays n'avait ni la capacité ni l'intention de construire des armes nucléaires : "Ce que Le monde nous demande aujourd'hui de montrer des armements nucléaires que nous n'avons pas. […] Nous avons beaucoup construit dans notre pays et nous ne voulons pas détruire cela. Ceux qui veulent la guerre sont insensés.". Dans une autre interview accordée à la Fondation Carnegie pour la paix internationale, Kim ajoutait : "Quel serait pour nous l'intérêt de produire une ou deux armes nucléaires lorsque vous avez plus de dix milles systèmes de frappes que nous n'avons pas?".”

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Against Empire, 1994, Pour la cause - Dissuader la prolifération des armements

pays , guerre , monde , paix

“En mai, 1994, le sénateur républicain de l'Arizona John McCain, considéré comme influent en matière de politique étrangère, a réclamé des frappes aériennes sur le réacteur nucléaire nord-coréen de Yongban, tout en admettant que "cela pourrait libérer des radiations nucléaires". Pyeong Yang avait donc quelque raison de penser qu'il pouvait-être pris pour cible. Ce que l'on n'a pas mentionné dans toute cette controverse, c'est que les États-Unis, d'après une estimation de l'Institut de Brooking en 1986, avaient installé un millier d'armes nucléaires en Corée du Sud à proximité de frappe du Nord.”

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Against Empire, 1994, Pour la cause - Dissuader la prolifération des armements

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“En 1993, la CIA et le Pentagone ont accusé la République populaire de Corée (RPDC), mieux connues comme la Corée du Nord communiste, de s'engager dans un programme clandestin d'armement nucléaire. Comme Preuve il mettait en avant l'extraction traditionnelle de barres de plutoniums de leurs installations nucléaires. Ce que les médias et les responsables américains omettaient de préciser, c'est que, entre mai 1992 et janvier 1993, la Corée du Nord a autorisé six inspections sur le terrain de l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique”

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Against Empire, 1994, Pour la cause - Dissuader la prolifération des armements

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“The real danger we face is not from terrorism but what is being done under the pretext of fighting it.”

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1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, The Terrorism Hype, p. 81
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“The overthrow of communism gave a green light to the unbridled exploitative impulses of Western corporate interests. No longer needing to convince workers that they live better than their counterparts in Russia, and no longer constrained by a competing system, the corporate class is rolling back the many gains that working people in the West have won over the years. Now that the free market, in its meanest form, is emerging triumphant in the East, so will it prevail in the West.”

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Source: Blackshirts and Reds (1997), p. 58

“Caesar’s sin, I shall argue, was not that he was subverting the Roman constitution—which was an unwritten one—but that he was loosening the oligarchy’s overbearing grip on it. Worse still, he used state power to effect some limited benefits for small farmers, debtors, and urban proletariat, at the expense of the wealthy few.”

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Michael Parenti livre The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome (2003)

“The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.”

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1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Rollback, p. 46
Dirty truths (1996), first edition
Contexte: Every ruling class has wanted only this: all the rewards and none of the burdens. The operational code is: we have a lot; we can get more; we want it all.

“Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 15, p. 267
Contexte: Conservatives insist that government should be " run more like a business." One might wonder how that could be possible, since government does not market goods and services for the purpose of capital accumulation.

“Marx said this, and so did Jefferson”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 335
Contexte: All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.

“Even though the crime rate has dropped in recent years, the United States has more police per capita then any other nation in the world.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 10, p. 173

“In the end I created a career of my own, concentrating on my writing and lecturing, reaching larger audiences than I would had I ended up with tenure and a full teaching load. It was Virginia Woolf who said that it is terrible to be frozen out of a sacred tradition-but even more terrible to be frozen into it.”

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5 MISCELLANY AND MEMORABILIA, Struggles in Academe: A Personal Account, p. 252
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“To complain about how the media are dominated by liberals, Limbaugh has an hour a day on network television, an hour on cable, and a radio show syndicated by over 600 stations.”

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2 MEDIA AND CULTURE, The "Liberal Media" Myth, p. 98
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“Twelve states in the Great Plains have a wind energy potential greater then the electric use of our entire nation.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 7, p. 118

“The trick is to steal big.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 8, p. 127

“The Federalists also used bribes, intimidation, and fraud against opponents of the Constitution.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 4, p. 60

“Actually, the New Deal's central dedication was to business recovery rather than social reform.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 5, p. 71

“It is ironic that people of modest means sometimes become conservative out of a scarcity fear bred by the very capitalist system they support.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 3, p. 44

“Conservatives have nothing againstincumbency when it is their people who are filling the slots.”

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1 POLITICS AND ISSUES, Term Limits: Trick or Treat?, p. 92
Dirty truths (1996), first edition

“One mechanism of repression is the grand jury.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 9, p. 139

“Putting an end to the population explosion will not of itself save the ecosphere, but not ending it will add greatly to the dangers the planet faces. The environment can sustain a quality of life for just so many people.”

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Source: Blackshirts and Reds (1997), p. 155

“Those who think Roman slavery was such a benign institution have not explained why fugitive slaves were a constant problem. Owners did not lightly countenance the loss of valuable property. They regularly used chains, metal collars, and other restraining devices. Slaves who fled were hunted down and returned to irate masters who were keen to inflict a severe retribution.”

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Michael Parenti livre The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome

Source: The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People's History of Ancient Rome (2003), Ch. 1

“American socialism cannot be modeled on the former Soviet Union, China, Cuba, or other countries with different historical, economic, and cultural developments.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 334

“Democracy is something more than a set of political procedures. To be worthy of its name, democracy should produce substantive outcomes that advance the health and well-being of the people.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 320

“There is a tradition of popular struggle in the United States that has been downplayed and ignored. It ebbs and flows but never ceases. Moved by a combination of anger and hope, ordinary people have organized, agitated, demonstrated, and engaged in electoral challenges, civil disobedience, strikes, sit-ins, takeovers, boycotts, and sometimes violent clashes with the authorities - for better wages and work conditions, a safer environment, racial and gender justice, and peace and nonintervention abroad. Against the heaviest odds, they have suffered many defeats but won some important victories, forcible extracting concessions and imposing reforms upon resistant rulers.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 320

“The American two-party electoral system, with its ballyhoo and hoopla, its impresarios and stunt artists, is the greatest show on earth. Campaign time is show time, a veritable circus brought into our living rooms via television as a form of entertainment. The important thing is that the show must go on - because it is more than just a show. The two-party system electoral social order. It channels and limits political expression, and blunts class grievances. It often leaves little time for the real issues because it gives so much attention to the contest per se who will run? who is ahead? who will win the primaries? who will win the election? It provides the form of republican government with little of the substance. It fives the plutocratic system of appearance of popular participation while being run by and for a select handful of affluent contestants.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 11, p. 179

“There is no such thing as unbiased or objective reporting of news. All reports and analyses are selective and inferential to some inescapable degree - all the more reason to provide a wider ideological spectrum of opinions and not let one bias predominate. If we consider censorship to be a danger to our freedom, then we should not overlook the fact that the media are already heavily censored by those who own or advertise in them. The very process of selection allows the politico-economic interests of the selector to operate as a censor.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 10 , p. 177

“The police confront dangers and social miseries of a kind most of us can only imagine. They deal with the waste products of a competitive corporate society: the ill-fed, the ill-housed, the desperate, and the defeated. The slums are not the problem, they are the solution; they are the way capitalism deals with the surplus people of a market economy. And for all they cost the taxpayer in crime, police and welfare, the slums remain a source of profit for certain speculators, arsonists, realtors, big merchants, and others.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 8

“America represents more than just an economic system; it is an entire cultural and social order, a plutocracy, a system of rule that is mostly by and for the rich. Most universities and colleges, publishing houses, mass circulation magazines, newspapers, television and radio stations, professional sports teams, foundations, churches, private museums, charity organizations, and hospitals are organized as corporations, ruled by boards of trustees (or directors or regents) composed overwhelmingly of affluent business people. These boards exercise final judgement over all institutional matters.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 3, p. 33

“Nations that chart a self-defining course, seeking to use their land, labor, natural resources, and markets as they see fit, free from the smothering embrace of the US corporate global order, frequently become a target of defamation. Their leaders often have their moral sanity called into question by US officials and US media, as has been the case at one time or another with Castro, Noriega, Ortega, Qaddafi, Aristide, Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, Hugo Chavez, and others.”

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North Korea: "Sanity" at the Brink (2009)

“There is nothing sacred about the existing system. All economic and political institutions are contrivances that should serve the interests of the people. When they fail to do so, they should be replaced by something more responsive, more just, and more democratic. Marx said this, and so did Jefferson. It is a revolutionary doctrine, and very much an American one.”

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Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 17, p. 335